The Hijlory of ANIMALS. 475 
the males are much more numerous than the females, but that they fight till the ad~ 
ditional number is deftroyed. Moft of the writers on birds have defcribed this fpe- 
cies, and all under thd fame name of Avis pugnax, the fighting birds We call the 
male the Ruff, and the female the Reeve, 
Tringa roflri apice punElato , dorfo fufco viridi* 
The Tringa, with the tip of the beak punBated^ 
and the back greenifh . 
%tfc €imlus, 
0? Xnnga. 
This is of the bignefs of the common blackbird, or fomewhat more i the head is 
round, and fomewhat deprefled on the crown; the eyes are large, very bright and 
piercing in their afpedt, and their iris is of a bright hazel: the beak is almoft an inch 
in length; it is ftraight, flender, compreffed a little at the fides, and of a greenifh 
colour toward the bafe, and black and pundtated at the point : the upper chap is a 
little longer than the under, and the tongue is acute, and not bifid. 
The colour of the whole back and covering feathers of the wings is an elegant 
fhining green, with a tinge of brown ; but the feathers about the fhoulders, and fome 
of thofe of the wings, are very elegantly dotted, as it were, with white toward their 
edges: the crown of the head has alfo a great number of thefe fpots fo difpofed, that 
they form a kind of ftreaks: the part about the eyes is white ; the throat is white, 
but there are fome fpots of brown on it: the feathers of the middle of the back are 
darker than the others in their middle, but white at the edges: thofe which cover the 
bafe of the tail are of a fnow-white; the breaft and belly are alfo throughout of a 
fhow-white. 
The wings are long, and their principal feathers in general are brown : the tail is 
fhort; it is compofed of twelve feathers; thefe are all nearly of a length : the edges 
of fome of them, and a yet greater part of many of the others, is white : the legs 
are moderately long and greenifh. 
This is a native of moft of the northern parts of Europe, and ufually flies flngly, 
except in the breeding time, when they are always feen in pairs. Moft of the writers 
on birds have defcribed it. Bellonius calls it Cinclus; Gefner, Gallinse genus quod 
ignoto nomine Sometfhumbe nomino ; and, in other places, Rhodopus and Ochropus 
medius; Aldrovand calls it Gallina Rhodopus five Phcenicopus and Tringa; Wil- 
lughby and others. Amply, Tringa. 
Tringa roflro Icevi , corpore cinereo , lituris nigris^fubtus albo . 
The grey Tringa^ fpotted with blacky with a fmooth beak , and 
a white belly , 
50 )t leffct 
Xnnga. 
This is a little but a very pretty bird; it’s weight is no more than two ounces: the 
head is fmall, rounded, and a little deprefled on the crown ; the ears are very wide 
and patulous: the eyes are large and bright, their iris is of a beautiful hazel: the beak 
is moderately long, and is of a whicifh colour toward the bafe, and black and fmooth 
at the tip. 
The head is of a pale brownifh colour, with a tinge of green ; the crown efpe~ 
daily is variegated with many longitudinal lines of a darker colour ; the neck is grey; 
the back, the fhoulders, and the covering feathers of the wings are all of an elegant 
brownifh-green, a very bright colour, with a fine Alky glofs, and all variegated with 
fhort, tranfverfe lines, of a darker colour: there runs a line of white on each fide of 
the head, juft over the eyes: the breaft and belly are throughout perfectly white, but 
the throat is of a fomewhat brownifh-white, with the fcapi of the feathers darker 
than the reft. 
The wings are moderately long, and their principal feathers are of the colour of 
thofe of the back, but more or iefs variegated witn white: the legs are moderately 
long. 
